The KISASS Guide to Screenwriting

About the Book

The KISASS* Guide to Screenwriting (*Keep It Short And Simple, Stupid) is the perfect book for beginners. Whether you’ve never read a screenplay, never written a screenplay, or have won awards for your screenplays, you’ll find useful (and occasionally funny) tips and advice on the art and craft of screenwriting. Written with morbid insight by a recent graduate of the prestigious UCLA masters of fine arts in screenwriting program, The KISASS Guide to Screenwriting distills years of graduate study and hundreds of screenwriting theories down to a precise statement: If you don’t keep your screenwriting SHORT and SIMPLE, you are STUPID.

About the Author

J.T. O’Neal graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in History of Art. He received an MFA (masters of fine arts) in screenwriting from UCLA, where he won the prestigious UCLA Screenwriting Showcase and the Alfred P. Sloan award. He wrote the KISASS Guide to Screenwriting as a special studies project under Richard Walter while in graduate school. His award-winning short films have played at over 80 festivals around the work. J.T. is the producer of the ultra-low budget feature film Alien Game, a co-executive producer of the feature film The Only Good Indian, and is a partner in Carmody/O’Neal Workshop Productions (COW Prods), an independent film production company. An accomplished photographer, his photographs are included in major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Library of Congress. He also has an MD from Kansas, and MPH (masters of public health) from Harvard, and is residency trained and board certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. But what he really loves is making movies.